"A soaring polemic, a grumpy reflection on modern music and the love note of a fan, A sound mind rejects the idea that classical music is fusty and old. Instead, this book reveals it to be the most exciting genre in music, its whole sound and history based on the search for "new," which is so lacking (according to Morley) in modern rock music. This is a memoir of Moley's shifting musical tastes, but it's also a compelling history of classical music...

Set against the background of the conflict between two races, the Slavs and the Gypsies, tells the story of the tragic fate of a Slavic woman, who was cast out of her family after marrying a Gypsy but is abandoned by her husband for a Gypsy woman and his old life among Gypsies.

The new music ensemble performs works by Missy Mazzoli, Wally Gunn, William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans, Eric Dudley, and Brad Wells.